Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 06:31:26 +0100 | From | Herbert Poetzl <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__ |
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On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 03:00:17PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote: > > > > I don't see it as obvious at all. The need for an agreement between > > two parties on an ABI doesn't imply that one party gets to define it > > and the other gets to follow it. > > Sorry, but that's not how it works. > > He who writes the code decides what it is. In this case, if the kernel > does a new extension, it's the kernel that gets to decide what it is. > Full stop. > > If glibc wants to do something new, go wild. The kernel won't care. > > And that's really the fundamental issue. The kernel does not care what > user land does. The kernel exports functionality, the kernel does _not_ > ask user land to help.
except for the user land kernel helpers ;) via call_usermodehelper()
> That _does_ make it a one-way street. Sorry. > > Linus
sorry too, Herbert
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